Well, it has been quite some time since I wrote, and now it seems too much to try to catch up.  I guess I’ll give it a try.

The last 6 weeks have gone by very quickly.  Yet, they seemed to have also trudged by.  I think that I was used to going at a pretty intense pace and then had some time off, so it seemed slow.  However, I was in a lot of places the last few weeks and never really felt like I was anywhere long enough (except North Dakota…that was plenty)

I was in Bismarck, N.D.; Columbus, MT; Glasgow, MT; back to Columbus; Portland, OR and then up to Seattle, WA.  All of that in the course of 4 weeks.

Now, I am back in Wintery Alaska, where I am living in the most snow I have every lived in.  It is a winter wonderland…everything is white.  Even the trees are covered in a beautiful coat of glistening whiteness.  (I am hoping to get out and do some snowshoeing, but it needs to warm up to above zero before I’ll be ready to spend some time out there.)

This week our team took another turn.  We had another member decide that this wasn’t the best place for her to be.  Understandably, when she is the only girl with 3 dudes in a new place.  Honestly, it is hard to be the team leader and see your team dwindle, but I am hoping that we will be able to finish this year out strong.

Today is one of the teammates B-day, and I am at a loss for what to get him.  I love buying gifts but I prefer to get gifts that have meaning or something a person wants…he just bought himself a jacket that I would have gotten, but he beat me to it.  Oh well, we are going out to dinner tonight (I hear this place is one of the best in town) and then we’ll probably go see Eragon.

 Well, that is about all I have for now.  I would expect to have some more to write, soon.

 Until then…